REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Eeb. 6tii, 1855. 
The Report which the Council have now to lay before the 
Annual Meeting, though not in all respects so favourable as 
that of the preceding year, nevertheless presents no features 
which ought to create misgiving as to the stability and per¬ 
manent well-doing of the Society. The additions to the 
collections possess considerable interest, and the number of 
visitors to the gardens remains undiminished, except by the 
absence of excursion trains, which have during the past year 
afforded no influx of strangers. The only discouraging feature 
in the condition of the Society is the small number of new 
members who have been recently admitted. To this circum¬ 
stance reference will be made in a later part of the Report. 
Many valuable additions have been made during the past 
year to the Collections in Natural History. 
During a visit to Ely in the summer, the Keeper of the 
Museum purchased a very interesting series of Saurian Bones 
and Teeth from the Kimmeridge Clay of that neighbourhood, 
including remains of three genera, Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus 
and Pliosaurus. The teeth of the last named genus, of which 
there are several in the Collection, are very peculiar, and they 
form an important acquisition, no other examples probably 
existing in the Museums of the North of England. Accom¬ 
panying these Saurian remains were many specimens of the 
